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Home About Director & Staff Dear Copyright Friends and Colleagues: CMC News Copyright Programs At about the end of 2007, this website will be Documents-NEW! Local, Regional, and National Copyright either reworked substantially or removed. Events University Policies The time has come to wind down the Law Resources Copyright Management Center. It was the Distance Education first office of its type at any university, and I Copyright Book - NEW Library Issues have had the pleasure of serving as its Learn more about Copyright from the CMC Director FAQ director since inception of the CMC in 1994. I Favorite Links have been honored anytime anyone has used Archive the site. But change is afoot. I will be relocating to Columbia University, where we Contact CMC are laying plans for a new website that should be ready for service in early 2008. I thank you, I thank everyone at IU and IUPUI, and I look forward to a productive future. Kenny Crews Announcement from Columbia University Copyright Quickguide! TEACH Act Learn basic copyright information quickly, such Use of Copyrighted Works as: Protection, Registration, Ownership, Rights, in Distance Education Duration, Fair Use, Permissions, and more. Managing Ownership of Copyrighted Works Using the MOU to address issues of ownership at the University Fair-Use Issues Filesharing and Copyright How to appropriately and lawfully use existing Learn about Filesharing,Uploading, copyrighted materials in teaching, research, and Downloading, MP3s, and more other activities. Including: The "Fair Use Checklist"! IU Digital Music Library Project Variations2 (NSF Project) Permissions Information How to obtain permission to use existing copyrighted materials. Copyright Ownership How to get copyright protection and who holds legal rights to new works created at the university. Including: Guidance for Authors and Publishers of Scholarly Works The Copyright Management Center is not part of University Counsel and is not legal counsel to the university or to any members of the university community. A mission of the CMC is to provide information and education services to help members of the community better address their needs. The information received from the CMC is not legal advice. Individuals and organizations should consult their own attorneys. Free hit counter Copyright © 2002-2006 Indiana University provided by digits.com About the Copyright Management Center CMC Home Mission of the CMC NOTE: Information on this and other The Copyright Management Center (CMC) serves the Indiana University-Purdue University pages will soon be Indianapolis (IUPUI) and larger Indiana University community with the management of taken offline as this copyright issues arising in the creation of original works and in the use of existing site will be closing. copyrighted works for teaching, research, and service. Indiana University is a complex Click here for details. organization with ambitious programs for the creation and dissemination of new knowledge. IUPUI, in particular, provides a broad mix of academic programs with a rich agenda for Copyright creative teaching and ambitious research. The CMC originated at IUPUI in 1994 specifically Quickguide! in response to those needs; it was the first office of its kind at any college or university in the United States. In the pursuit of those programs, university activities frequently raise questions about the Fair-Use relationship of copyright to the university's research, teaching, and service mission. A Issues principal objective of the Copyright Management Center is to facilitate a constructive relationship between higher education and our legal rights and responsibilities. Permissions The CMC meets that objective by several means, including: Conducting presentations and Information workshops on copyright issues; preparing handouts and other explanatory material; disseminating announcements of current developments; developing instructional programs for the university community; leading efforts to establish policy standards; and creating a public website and other means for sharing information. Copyright Ownership Objective of the CMC Website This website provides access to a wide variety of resources about copyright in general and its importance to higher education, including a variety of other pages dealing with the subject of copyright. You can learn more about the Copyright Management Center and what the CMC can do for you, about copyright policies and standards, and about copyright interpretations as applied to particular situations that a professor, librarian, or student may encounter. Topics of particular interest include fair use and distance learning. If you are already knowledgeable about copyright, you should find this site to hold a useful inventory of primary and secondary source materials for probing an issue more fully. We hope that members of the university community will find the resources necessary to help them begin to answer questions and resolve copyright concerns. Newcomers to the world of copyright will benefit by studying the "Quick Guide" available on this site and other relevant documents. For more information, see: "The Copyright Management Center at IUPUI: Brief History, Dynamic Changes, and Future Demands", Kenneth D. Crews, (originally published in the Journal of the Indiana Library Federation & the Indiana State Library, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2000). The Copyright Management Center is not part of University Counsel and is not legal counsel to the university or to any members of the university community. A mission of the CMC is to provide information and education services to help members of the community better address their needs. The information received from the CMC is not legal advice. Individuals and organizations should consult their own attorneys. Copyright © 2002-2006 Indiana University Copyright Management Center Staff CMC Home NOTE: Information on this and other CMC Director, Kenneth D. Crews, Ph.D pages will soon be taken offline as this site will be closing. Click here for details. Copyright Quickguide! Fair-Use Issues Permissions Information Copyright Ownership The Copyright Management Center is not part of University Counsel and is not legal counsel to the university or to any members of the university community. A mission of the CMC is to provide information and education services to help members of the community better address their needs. The information received from the CMC is not legal advice. Individuals and organizations should consult their own attorneys. Copyright © 2002-2006 Indiana University CMC News CMC Home ● Professor Crews is a co-investigator for intellectual property issues under a major NOTE: Information grant from the National Science Foundation regarding the development of a Digital on this and other Music Library. Watch for the public posting of background studies on issues such as pages will soon be Copyright Expiration, Fair Use, Napster, and many other critical issues. taken offline as this site will be closing. ● Click here for details. Announcing New Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation at the Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. Copyright ● Quickguide! Professor Crews is an Intellectual Property Scholar for the Center for Intellectual Property and Copyright in the Digital Environment, University of Maryland University College. ● Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators, revised second edition (2006). Fair-Use Attorney, librarian, professor, and author Kenneth D. Crews presents a concise Issues overview of copyright in this up-to-date reference written especially for faculty members and information professionals. This book is based on the "Online Copyright Tutorials" that reached more than 11,000 readers in the preceding two years. Permissions Information ● 2000 edition of: Copyright Law & Graduate Research: New Media, New Rights, and Your New Dissertation, Kenneth D. Crews. ❍ General guidance for dissertations, research articles, and many other Copyright projects ❍ Ownership Recent fair-use cases ❍ New legislation ❍ Extended term of copyright protection ❍ International Issues ● The Copyright Permissions Office is a service based at IUPUI with a central objective of providing information to the members of the IUPUI community seeking to secure permission of the use of copyrighted works for educational purposes. ● Electronic Reserves and Copyright at IUPUI (revised policy in 2002) ● Fair Use Checklist (revised 2002) ● TEACH Act Checklist - (created in 2003) The Copyright Management Center is not part of University Counsel and is not legal counsel to the university or to any members of the university community. A mission of the CMC is to provide information and education services to help members of the community better address their needs. The information received from the CMC is not legal advice. Individuals and organizations should consult their own attorneys. Copyright © 2002-2006 Indiana University CMC Home Documents NOTE: Information on this and other Agreements pages will soon be taken offline as this ❍ site will be closing. Click here for details. Memorandum of Understanding - Assuring rights of use of instructional materials for distance education. (pdf version) ■ Copyright Summary and Overview of the Memorandum of Understanding Quickguide! ❍ Copyright and Publishing Agreement with the Indiana Law Review - Agreement transferring copyrights in articles to be published by the Indiana Fair-Use Law Review to the Trustees of IU. (pdf version) Issues ❍ Permission to Use Student